The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 7
Her women presently informed her that she was obliged to the three princes, her cousins, and particularly to Prince Ahmed, for the sudden recovery of her health.
Who acts: women, health · What happens: inform, oblige, recover · To what, where: princess, Prince Ahmed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, health), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 women | nmod:poss |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 informed | nsubj |
| 3 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 informed | advmod |
| 4 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 informed | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 obliged | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obliged | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 obliged | aux:pass |
| 9 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 informed | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 princes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princes | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 princes | nummod |
| 13 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 obliged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cousins | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 princes | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ahmed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Ahmed | cc |
| 19 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 22 Ahmed | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Ahmed | case |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ahmed | compound |
| 22 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 obliged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 recovery | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 recovery | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 recovery | det |
| 26 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 recovery | amod |
| 27 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obliged | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 health | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 health | nmod:poss |
| 30 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 recovery | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past | princess's women | princess | presently property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | princess | Prince Ahmed | to the three princes and princess's cousins; for the sudden recovery of princess's health | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | recover | princess's health | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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